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You only have six digits to form three fractions. Can you combine them to get to 0?

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Students explore famous structures from around the world, put them into related categories, pick some winners, and then design their own.

Let’s use factors to encode and decode words.

Have you ever noticed that some stories have awfully similar problems? What if we looked for the most unusual way of solving a repeating problem?

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Reduce anxiety by learning to “change the channel.”

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

We’ll take two seemingly unrelated pieces of content (say volcanoes and the human body) and then build analogies to connect the two ideas. In the end, students can create a skit, comic, or story relating the two concepts.

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Rather than just memorizing word parts, students will use those word parts to create four possible products.

Take away some anxiety with the tool Brain Plate.

Do you know someone who becomes a bit overexcited by ideas?

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Place value is something we cover in elementary school. It seems simple, but I’d wager that very few adults really understand the topic. I sure didn’t until I worked with non-base-10 number systems in college. Your students can get a taste of this mind-boggling experience by imagining what it would be like if we didn’t have the number 9. What would each digit represent then?

Why are there 12 months? Why don’t weeks fit into months evenly? Why don’t weeks fit into the year evenly? What’s going on with the calendar!

A passage from “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” to use as a mentor text, discussion starter, or writing prompt.

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We tell students to “show, not tell” in their writing, but this advice isn’t effective until they experience the difference. In this video, we’ll put a famous character (of students’ choosing) into a mundane situation and develop a fun scene to show off their main traits.

Want something to do during the holiday season that is both fun and involves thinking? Get students writing about what a snowman would think about Halloween or what a ghost would think about Thanksgiving.

We’ll show students how to add more variety to their writing by starting sentences with a reason, a prepositional phrase, and a simile.

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Once students understand the order of operations, they often just get stuck doing increasingly difficult practice problems. That’s a sure-fire way to squelch learning, though. Here, students determine where to place parentheses to make the greatest change in an expression.

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Adults can learn to help students reduce anxiety with the tool Worry Time.

Students use 12 random phrases to create a story that takes place in space!

Click up an interesting, visual writing prompt suitable for any grade or purpose.

Adults can limit anxiety by implementing the Five Question Rule.

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How would people with two different perspectives discuss a decision from history?

Your students will set up a tournament to determine which person or character best demonstrated resiliency.

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Can someone do the right thing, but for the wrong reason?

Reduce anxiety by breathing in a square pattern.

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We’ll start with the cliché “as cold as ice” and go somewhere much more interesting.

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What’s going on in this room? There are shoes everywhere! Are those… oranges? Let’s make some inferences!

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No video gets me more email from students! How few colors can you use to color in any map so that no two, neighboring regions are the same color?

A mysterious image. Reveal it slowly. Let your students wonder!

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When fractions take on a new denominator, it’s as if they’re wearing a disguise – same value, new look. So let’s write a story about fraction equivalence starring a fraction who needs to fit in with a new group.

Learn to lead a lesson that is built entirely on student curiosity.

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Just because a task is “creative” doesn’t mean students are at the top of Bloom’s Taxonomy.